Gus Hansen Leads Spanish WPT
October 15, 2007
Full Tilt Poker's Gus Hansen goes into the final table of the WPT Spanish Championship in Barcelona as the chip leader.
This could be his 4th World Poker Tour title, and his second major tournament win this year after taking out the Aussie Millions in January.
This is the World Poker Tour's first ever event in Spain and Barcelona is certainly a beautiful host city, within a country where poker's popularity is steadily increasing.
Two hundred and twenty six players started this tournament and the final six will play off at Castle Peralada, which is near the border of Spain and France, from 4 p.m. CET on Tuesday.
The final table chip counts and seat allocations are as follows.
Seat 1 - Vladimir Poleschchuk - 176,000
Seat 2 - Christer Johansson - 855,000
Seat 3 - Steve Sung - 670,000
Seat 4 - Gus Hansen - 962,000
Seat 5 - Ludovic Lacay - 400,000
Seat 6 - Markus Lehmann - 329,000
And here is the prize pool they'll be playing for:
1st - 554,980 euros (approx. $787,073)
2nd - 295,200 euros (approx. $418,653)
3rd - 151,000 euros (approx. $214,148)
4th - 117,400 euros (approx. $166,497)
5th - 100,600 euros (approx. $142,671)
6th - 83,900 euros (approx. $118,987)
Gus Hansen is Denmark's greatest poker hero and can often be found playing online at Full Tilt Poker.
